Necktie-retainer.



A. E. THOMPSON.

NEGKTIE RETAINER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30,1913.

Patented June 16, 1914.

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NECKTIE-RETAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 16, 1914.

Application filed June 30, 1913. Serial No. 776,552.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ALBERT EDWARD THOMPSON, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Hamilton, in the county of VVentworth and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful NecktieRetainer, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in neck-tie retainers, in which four spring wire members are connected together, one said member adapted to button on a persons collar stud, and provided with lower extending points adapted to pierce the inner side of the neck-tie, and another said member is provided with upturned points adapted to pierce the same side of the neck-tie, upon adjustment, of said member, and there lock the members together with the tie.

The objects of my invention are first, to provide means for attachment to the front button, or stud, of a collar, and between the shirt and the neck-tie, whereby the neck-tie, when tied and adjusted to position, may there be retained in relative position with the stud; second, to afford facilities for easily adjusting the retainer to position, and its adjustment to the tie. I attain these obj ects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is an enlarged front elevation of the neck-tie retainer, in unlocked position. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same as viewed from the right-hand side. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing the pointed ends of two of the members brought farther away one from the other, and the retainer as it appears when the lever is adjusted to locking position.

Similar characters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawing the neck-tie retainer comprises four members, designated 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively, each of which is made of spring wire of suitable caliber and resiliency, and loosely connected one with the other. The top of the member A, is formed as an eyelet 5, adapted by its resiliency to adjustment on a collar stud. The sides of said member gradually widen, and then approach each other and return outwardly thereby forming similar upper and lower parts constituting horizontal shoulders 6. The sides of the member 1 then curve gradually down ward and outwardly and the ends thereof are pointed as at 8.

The member 2 is a lever, extending be tween the sides of the member 1, and bends over and on the fulcrum shoulders 6, then outwardly and downwardly in curved form, and the end part is formed as a coiled eyelet. The opposite end parts of the lever 2, extend beyond the opposite or front side of the member 1, and terminate in the form of upturned pointed ends 9. The middle curved and upper parts ofthe lever 2, rest loosely on the shoulders 6, and said shoulders act as a fulcrum for the lever when being manipulated, by its coiled eyelet end portlon, to locked position.

The locking member 3, has front ends 10, attached on and to the bent, or root parts of the pointed ends 9, of the member 2, and extending rearward between the sides of the members 1 and 2 and under the shoulders 6, in close contact with the outer and inwardly bent parts of the rear sides of the lever 2, and around the rear part thereof and there coiled as a loop or an eyelet. When the coiled and lower eyelet part of the lever 2, is brought downward, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing, the pointed ends 9 of said lever are, in consequence, simultaneously brought upward to an increased distance from the pointed ends 8 of the member 1, and said pointed ends are adapted to simultaneously enter and pierce the rear side of a neck-tie. At this time the upper front part of the lever 2 has passed its center on the shoulders 6, and the locking member 3, by its resiliency, and the inherent resiliency of the member '1, and the lever 2, look the members together with their pointed ends extended apart, as each member referred to is made of one continuous piece of spring wire.

The member 1, is a spiral spring con necting the lower and inwardly curved end parts of the member 1, together. The spiral spring tensions the lower leg parts of the member 1, and retains said parts in normal and relative position one with the other.

The several members of the retaining dc vice are suitably curved, and arranged one with the other in order to attain the desired result, namely, to retain the neck-tie in adjusted and relative position with a collar.

It will be noticed that the eyelet part of the member 1 may easily be inserted on a collar stud and there retained by the inherent resiliency of the member, in that the sides can slight-1y widen apart one from the other and resume normal position when inserted. The coiled eyelet of the lever 2, and the similar coiled eyelet 12 of the looking member 3, allow more contraction and expansion to the sides of said members, than would otherwise be the case.

The operation of the device is as follows :The device when closed is buttoned on a collar stud and between the ends of the collar, the device is then opened and the lower pointed ends 8 of the member 1 are then placed in the inner side of a four-inhand neck tie. lVhen the eyelet end part of the member, or lever 2, is pulled down as shown in Fig. 3, of the drawing, the front part including the prongs 9, is thrown up, thus drawing the ends 10, of the member 3 upwardly and this tends to pull the sides of the member 3 into engagement with the other parts locking the device. The member 3, tends to tighten against the lower shoulder 6, and it embraces the member 2, so as to engage and grip it.

lVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A neck-tie retainer comprising a resilient wire member having an upper eyelet formed therein adapted to button and lock on a stud, and the sides downwardly extending and gradually widening in curved form, and extending inwardly and returning outwardly thereby forming upper and lower shoulders, said sides curving downwardly and the ends thereof pointed, a resilient wire lever bent over and on the upper shoulder and at one end extending downwardly and then formed into pointed upturned ends, the opposite end part of the lever being in yelet form, a resilient wire member loosely attached to said downturned parts, and extending rearwardly be tween the sides of said member and lever, and under said lower shoulder, and engaging with the rear sides of the lever to lock the same, and tensioning means on the lower end parts of the buttoning member.

2. In a neck-tie retainer, a resilient wire member, having an upper eyelet formed between the sides thereof, said sides downwardly extending and gradually widening, then curving inwardly and returning thereby forming upper and lower shoulders between said sides, and downwardly extending in curved form and terminating with pointed ends, a resilient wire lever, the sides of which are looped over the upper shoulders and extend at one end downwardly terminating in upturned pointed ends, the opposite end part of the lever adapted to be lowered, thereby increasing the distance between the pointed ends of the lever and the pointed ends of the first mentioned member, and a resilient wire member, at tached to said downturned ends and engaging with the said lower shoulder, and with the outer sides and rear of the lever, to lock said lever when the same is brought downward.

3. A neck-tie retaining device consisting of a resilient wire member having an upper eyelet, shoulders transversely formed between the sides of the member, said sides continuing downwardly in curved form and pointed at the ends thereof, a resilient wire lever looped over the uppermost of said shoulders and curving obliquely therefrom in a coil termination, the opposite ends pointed and curving in an opposite direction, and a resilient wire locking member embracing the sides of said lever and engaging the under shoulder, and the ends engaging with the curves of the pointed ends of the lever, the coiled end part of the lever adapted to be brought in proximity to the pointed ends of said first named member, thereby increasing the distance between the pointed ends of the said first named member and the pointed ends of the lever, and there locked by the locking member.

ALBERT EDWARD THOMPSON- VVitnesses J. H. HENDRY, JAMES Harms.

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Washington, D. G. 

